Rape
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County sheriff's officials say they're looking for a man accused of raping a mentally disabled woman on a city bus. Sgt. Dan Scott says the suspect boarded the bus with the woman in Culver City, followed her to the back of the bus and forced himself on her late […]
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock refused to apologize Wednesday for saying that rape resulting in pregnancy is "something God intended." State Republicans and a few congressional leaders defended Mourdock, whose prospects of winning the seat long held by the GOP are unclear. But with female voters critical in the tight presidential […]
If hypocrisy were bat guano, we’d all be hip deep in the stuff by now. Everybody wants to get in his or her two cents worth about Missouri Rep. Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” quote, and frankly, I can’t blame folks. If there are two words that absolutely, positively do NOT belong together, even in the […]
No one should be all that shocked that Todd Akin believes that women’s bodies are biologically equipped to repel the sperm of rapists. The Missouri GOP congressman does, after all, belong to a party in which ideology has been easing out intelligence for a long time. It’s the party that has, for example, long fought […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says a GOP Senate candidate's comments on rape are "offensive." Obama said at a news conference Monday that comments by Missouri Congressman Todd Akin do not make sense. Obama said, "Rape is rape" and said the idea of distinguishing among types of rape "doesn't make sense to the American […]
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri Congressman Todd Akin, the conservative Republican U.S. Senate candidate, quickly backed off comments that aired earlier Sunday, in which he told an interviewer that a woman's body "has ways" to prevent pregnancy during rape and that such pregnancies are "really rare." Akin, a six-term congressman running against incumbent Democrat Sen. […]
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A former high school football star whose dreams of a pro career were shattered by a rape conviction burst into tears Thursday as a judge threw out the charge that sent him to prison for more than five years. Brian Banks, now 26, pleaded no contest 10 years ago on […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A stubbornly divided jury will have a day off to dwell on clergy-abuse charges pending against two Roman Catholic priests before returning for a 13th day of talks Friday. The jury deliberated anew for several hours Wednesday after telling a Philadelphia judge they were at an impasse on four of the case's […]
PARIS (AP) — A French prosecutor on Monday opened a preliminary investigation into allegations of rape in a Washington hotel by former IMF chief and one-time French presidential hopeful Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The move by the prosecutor in Lille in northern France followed a request by investigating judges earlier this month to broaden a suspected prostitution […]
Los Angeles Angels outfielder, Torii Hunter, a 13-year veteran and winner of nine consecutive Gold Glove awards, has taken a leave of absence from the team to deal with his son’s arrest in Prosper, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. Hunter’s 17-year-old son, Darius McClinton-Hunter of McKinney, Texas, was arrested in Prosper when police came into […]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Jerry Sandusky again asked a judge to throw out the child sexual abuse charges against him on Wednesday, arguing that some counts are too vague to defend and others involve alleged victims whose identities have not been determined. The former Penn State assistant football coach’s trial is scheduled to get under […]